Sept. 20, 2016 – Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016

Today’s thought from the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:

Reflection for the DayNow that I am in The Program, I am no longer enslaved by alcohol and other drugs. Free, free at last from the morning-after tremors, the dry heaves, the three-day beard, the misplaced eyelashes. Free, free at last from working out the alibis and hoping they won’t unravel; free from blackouts, free from watching the clock so that I can somehow get that desperately needed “first one.”

Do I treasure my freedom from chemical enslavement?

Today I PrayPraise God that I am free of chemicals. This is my first freedom, from which other freedoms will develop – freedom to appraise my behavior sanely and constructively, freedom to grow as a person, freedom to maintain relationships with others on a sound basis. I will never cease to thank my Higher Power for leading me away from my enslavement.